Hmmm I suppose this is a bit of a tricky question, it is illegal to distribute material on how to make an explosive: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/842 (section P.2 at the end)
On the other hand, it is legal for people to distribute information and blueprints on how to make a gun in a machine shop. My guess is a CAD file falls under "instructions on how to make a gun" and will likely be protected. I could see future legislation forbidding the distribution of CAD files on how to make a illegal parts (silencers, automatic conversion, large round clips etc) if a terrorist ever uses a CAD gun. **************************** Greg Sonnenfeld “Two h's walk into a bar. The first one says, "What is this? Some kind of physics joke?” On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Did I just mention that we live in strange (e.g. interesting in the > Confucian sense) times? > > the-worlds-first-3d-printed-gun > > cant be long before you can DL a Glock .STL file .... oh wait! what's this ? > > Someone in the comments of SlashDot suggested that we might end up outlawing > 3D printers and someone else suggested outlawing the teaching of geometry... > but we all know from the rash of "script kiddies" that you don't need to > understand the tools you are wielding to be effective en-masse! > > And re the Glock .STL... whatever happened to old fashioned "soap carving" > and "boot black" ? > > - Steve > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
